"I remember the day David, our CFO, told me the IPO process would
conclude on May 18," Zuckerberg
wrote in a Facebook post celebrating his anniversary on
Friday. "I was shocked. I closed the door and asked if it was
possible to maybe do it a few days sooner."

"He said it wouldn't be ready yet. I asked if maybe we could do
it a week later, and he told me that May 18 was the day it would
be ready so it needed to be that day. And that's how our IPO came
to be the day before our wedding."

Zuckerberg ended up cutting his honeymoon in Rome, Italy, short
to fly back and be with his employees after Facebook's IPO flop.
Now he and Priscilla go on a honeymoon every year around their
anniversary. This year they'll spend it in rural Maine as part of
his
tour of the US.

You can read Zuckerberg's full post about Facebook's IPO and his
wedding anniversary below: